A central figure in the avant-garde music scene in New York City for nearly forty years, Elliott Sharp leads the projects Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane. He has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His collaborators have included Ensemble Modern, Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt, pop singer Debbie Harry, blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples, jazz greats Jack deJohnette and Sonny Sharrock, turntable innovator Christian Marclay, and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians of Jahjouka. Sharp's Polymerae was commissioned by the Frankfurter Stiftung and premiered in April 2008 by the Ensemble Modern.
His work was featured in the 2008 New Music Stockholm Festival with the premiere of Sidebands and at Frankfurt's Klangbiennale in May 2007 with the premiere of On Corlear's Hook for the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt and his solo performance Momentum Anomaly. His music-theater work EmPyre was premiered at the 2006 Venice Biennale. His scores for film and theater include Toni Dove’s sci-fi feature Spectropia, the feature-documentary Commune by Jonathan Berman, and Yellowman and Raw Boys, both plays by Dael Orlandersmith. Sharp's music-theater work Binibon premiered in May 2009 at The Kitchen in New York City. Sharp was curator for Contemporary Music 2004-2006 for WPS1.org as well as for the important sound-art exhibition Volume: Bed of sound for PS1 Contemporary Art Center in 2001.
Traveling Through the Jungle, host
Tod Dockstadter, Organized Sound, host
The Music of Sasandu, host
The Music of Harry Partch, host
The Music of Earle Brown, host
Susan Alcorn: Mandala, host
Sun Ra: The Concert for the Comet Kohoutek, host
Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato: Airprints, host
Steve Peters: In Memory of the Four Winds, host
Sonorama, host
Sinawai: Korean Shaman Music, host
Peter Kowald & Damon Smith, Mirrors , host
Os Mutantes, host
Negativland (These Guys are from England and Who Gives a Shit), host
Morton Feldman, Coptic Light / Elliott Sharp, Calling, host
Miya Masaoka: Works Old and New, host
Miles Davis: On The Corner (Live), host
Michael Schumacher, Room Pieces, host
Max Neuhaus, Fontana Mix - Feed, host
Mark Dagley's Mix Tape, host
Hungarian Folk Music from Transylvania, host
Guitar Soloists, London Musicians Collective , host
Gary Smith: Solo Guitar (12 Improvisations), host
Ethiopia: The Golden Years of Modern Music, host
Elliott Sharp's Radio Hyper-Yahoo, host
Elliott Sharp's Living Room 3, host
Elliott Sharp's Living Room 2, host
Elliott Sharp's Living Room 1, host
Christopher Penrose, American Jingo, host
Christian Marclay: Graffiti Composition, host
Carla Bozulich and Ches Smith: Pull Handles Up Not Out, host
Briggan Krauss: Object, host
Bombay the Hard Way, host
Beneath The Valley Of Gwangi, artist
Anthony Braxton, 19 [Solo] Compositions (1989), host
Albert Ayler at La Cave, host
Ahlam: Revolt Against Reason, host